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How many copies did 杀虫剂小队:虫族争霸Insecticide Troopers:Star zerg sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 174–282
$430–$1k after Steam's cut $782–$2k before Steam's cut
from 7 reviews (7 user reviews)
Only 7 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid 杀虫剂小队:虫族争霸Insecticide Troopers:Star zerg and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 杀虫剂小队:虫族争霸Insecticide Troopers:Star zerg's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 38k–475k
best case 5.8M (Mad Max)
Games like 杀虫剂小队:虫族争霸Insecticide Troopers:Star zerg

A typical game among these

≈ 38k–475k copies

≈ $114k–$6.6M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Third-Person Shooter (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Mad Max at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies, ≈ $24.3M–$65.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 272 reviews in their first month; the range was 58 to 1k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Third-Person Shooter (4 of 8) and FPS (2 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Open World + Vehicular Combat, priced around $20.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.
How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Mad Max
2015
Est. copies
≈ 4.4M–7.2M
56x vs typical
SteamSpy 2M–5M
Est. revenue
$24.3M–$65.4M after Steam's cut $44.2M–$100.6M before Steam's cut
$19.99
91k reviews
Very Positive
Open WorldVehicular Combat
Zombie Army Trilogy
2015
Est. copies
≈ 918k–1.5M
12x vs typical
SteamSpy 1M–2M
Est. revenue
$11.4M–$30.5M after Steam's cut $20.7M–$47.0M before Steam's cut
$44.99
19k reviews
Very Positive
ZombiesAction
Home Wars
2017
Est. copies
≈ 41k–66k
SteamSpy 50k–100k
Est. revenue
$112k–$302k after Steam's cut $204k–$464k before Steam's cut
$9.99
1k reviews
Mostly Positive
RTSFPS
Attack on Toys
2021
Est. copies
≈ 30k–49k
SteamSpy 50k–100k
Est. revenue
$58k–$156k after Steam's cut $106k–$241k before Steam's cut
$6.99
1k reviews
Very Positive
Early AccessAction RTS
METAL GEAR SOLID 3: Snake Eater - Master Collection Version
2023
Est. copies
≈ 176k–286k
4.4x vs typical
SteamSpy 100k–200k
Est. revenue
$968k–$2.6M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.0M before Steam's cut
$19.99
7k reviews
Very Positive
ActionAction-Adventure
BEARS, VODKA, BALALAIKA! 🐻
2019
Est. copies
≈ 58k–94k
SteamSpy 100k–200k
Est. revenue
$63k–$170k after Steam's cut $115k–$261k before Steam's cut
$3.99
2k reviews
Very Positive
ViolentIndie
BEAR, VODKA, STALINGRAD!🐻
2020
Est. copies
≈ 25k–40k
SteamSpy 50k–100k
Est. revenue
$27k–$72k after Steam's cut $49k–$111k before Steam's cut
$3.99
988 reviews
Very Positive
ActionIndie
Bad 2 Bad: Apocalypse
2024
Est. copies
≈ 23k–37k
SteamSpy 20k–50k
Est. revenue
$127k–$341k after Steam's cut $231k–$524k before Steam's cut
$19.99
930 reviews
Mostly Positive
RPGIndie

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